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• Judge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law

  Mon Oct 24, 2011
  • Every social benefit comes with certain requirements. It's not an unreasonable to say that one of the requirements for receiving welfare is that you stay off of drugs. My own personal soap box is to say that nobody receiving welfare or food stamps should be allowed to have a TV in their house.

• Oklahoma pharmacist sentenced to life for killing would-be robber

  Mon Jul 11, 2011
  • The first bullet was pure self-defense; the last five were not. A crime was committed. But it shouldn't be a life sentence. 5-10 years would be more appropriate. The robber was just begging to be shot.

• Where has the 'Jerusalem Camel' gone?

  Mon Mar 28, 2011
  • All the Israeli government has to do to make life miserable for Israeli Arabs and Palestinians is to follow the letter of their bureaucratic rules -- the ones that most Israeli citizens are able to work around, because they've got a cousin, or a friend of a friend, who can pull some strings.

• Was it appropriate for Alabama's new governor to say that only Christians are his brothers and sisters?

  Wed Jan 19, 2011
  • Even the Bible frequently uses "brother" to mean "countryman". The guv'nor is just being silly.

• Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance

  Thu Aug 5, 2010
  • Our military's thinking about these issues is stuck badly in the 20th century.  Wars of the 21st century will be fought remotely.

• Cremated remains of 96 found in storage unit

  Thu Dec 17, 2009
  • Agreed. I worked at a funeral home all through college, and we had lots of families that never picked up their cremains. We stored them and had them available if they ever wanted it, but they frequently just never showed up to pick them up. (The reference to "garden dirt" is funny.

• What's your view on human origins?

  Wed Sep 30, 2009
  • Evolution as a scientific theory is well established; the materialistic philosophy some folks trot out as science is much less so.

• What do you think of Rep. Joe Wilson's decision to shout out 'You lie!' during the president's speech?

  Wed Sep 9, 2009
  • If Wilson was right, he should have done it. But he wasn't, so there's no excuse for it. Wilson, not Obama, was lying.

• Are you interested in the Iranian presidential election?

  Fri Jun 12, 2009
  • When it comes to world peace, this election is only slightly less significant than the Obama/McCain fight.

• Do you support the financial rescue package passed by the Senate Wednesday?

  Wed Oct 1, 2008
  • Absolutely I support this. I'm disgusted that the House didn't pass this earlier.